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Geneva peace talks: looking for a way out of Syrian war

Opposing sides in the Syrian war have come face to face in UN peace talks for the first time in three years, as a way out of the deadly conflict remains elusive.

24/02/2017

Switzerland

Give peace no chance Syrian talks doomed to fail in Geneva

Geneva peace talks on Syria doomed to fail

23/02/2017

Switzerland

Syrian opposition calls for direct talks with Assad regime in Geneva

Syrian opposition delegates have for the first time called for face-to face talks with government representatives ahead of negotiations which begin today in…

23/02/2017

Sport

Shiffrin wins third straight slalom world title

American Mikaela Shiffrin cemented her status as the slalom queen after winning the world title in the discipline for a third consecutive time.

18/02/2017

Sport

Hirscher seals giant slalom world title, as low-flying plane slices camera cable

Austria’s Marcel Hirscher won giant slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after a delay caused by a Swiss air force plane slicing through an overhead television camera…

17/02/2017

Business Series

Credit Suisse announces big losses, more job cuts

Credit Suisse says its 2016 losses were 2.44 billion Swiss francs, it plans to cut up to 6,500 more jobs this year.

14/02/2017

Sport

French flair wins team gold at Alpine world championships

Mathieu Faivre anchored France to gold at the Alpine skiing World Championships in the Team Event at St Moritz.

14/02/2017

Sport

Alpine skiing: Aerni wins shock gold at Worlds

Luca Aerni handed host nation Switzerland their third title from six races at the World skiing championships in St.

13/02/2017

Sport

Alpine skiing: Stuhec and Feuz strike world championships gold

Ilka Stuhec became the second successive Slovenian to win the downhill title at the Alpine skiing world championships.

12/02/2017

Switzerland

Switzerland votes to ease citizenship rules

Swiss voters have approved a relaxation of their country’s citizenship rules, dismissing suggestions from the far-right that the move could pose a security…

12/02/2017

Switzerland

Swiss vote on citizenship rights and tax breaks

Switzerland is holding a referendum on making it easier for people born in the country to become citizens. It is opposed by a right-wing party.

12/02/2017

Switzerland

Swiss prepare to vote in citizenship referendum for third-generation immigrants

Switzerland heads to the polls this Sunday for a nationwide referendum on whether to make naturalisation for third-generation immigrants easier.

10/02/2017

Sport

Holdener wins Alpine combined gold as compatriot Gut suffers season-ending injury

The Swiss team enjoyed mixed emotions on home snow at the World Championships in St Moritz on Friday.

10/02/2017

Sport

Uefa's Executive Committee approve governance reforms

The way European football’s administrative body Uefa is governed could be about to change after a set of reforms were approved by the organisation’s executive committee this…

09/02/2017

Sport

Erik Guay wins Super-G Gold

Canadian Erik Guay produces a stunning run to take Super-G gold

08/02/2017

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Geneva art fair 2017

The Geneva Art Fair, or Artgenève is an art exhibition, which aims to establish an artistic platform in French-speaking Switzerland.

28/01/2017

Next Series

Hunting earth-like exoplanets

In this edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of Geneva – home to experts in exoplanets, the name given to planets outside our solar…

26/01/2017

Switzerland

Euroviews. From cybersecurity to health - 10 takeaways from Davos 2017: opinion

24/01/2017

Sport

UCI celebrates first successful Snow Bike Festival in Gstaad

Fed up of fighting with the traffic? Take to the slopes as the UCI holds its first ever Snow Bike Festival.

23/01/2017

Switzerland

Davos 2017: shifting sands in geopolitics and economics

Where to next for the world? Euronews looks at what 2017 is set to bring geopolitically and economically - in this special show from the World Economic Forum (WEF).

23/01/2017

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Hot air balloons in Switzerland

Château-d’Oex in Switzerland is hosting its International Balloon Festival until January 29.

23/01/2017

Sci-Tech

A transplant operation of cartilage from the nose could bring help to people who suffer knee problems

Swiss doctors have reported that cartilage cells harvested from patients’ own noses have been used to successfully produce cartilage transplants for the treatment of the knees of 10 adults with damage

23/01/2017

Switzerland

Trump's inauguration overshadows Davos

Global elite in Davos consider the Trump presidency - will he act on what he says, or rather Tweets or whether he will prove to be more pragmatic?

20/01/2017

Switzerland

Security concerns shiver through Davos as Trump takes centre stage

What of global security under Donald Trump?

19/01/2017

Economy

Russian sanctions speculation debated at Davos

The change of administration at the White House has led to speculation about the possible lifting of US sanctions against Russia over its incursion into Crimea.

19/01/2017

Economy

US policies critical to 2017 global economic prospects

Participants in the the World Economic Forum tell Euronews what Donald Trump does is critical for the US and the, by extension, the global economy.

19/01/2017